- Gale Sondergaard, The Life of Emile Zola, 1936. Stickney and Josephine Hutchinson were also in the Warner frame frame for Emile’s wife, Lucie, in a superb film, if less about the Zola oeuvre than his exposure of the Dreyfus affair. Sixty-two years later, the two actresses died within two days of each other in June 1998 when Josephine was 94 and Dorothy, 101.
- Irene Dunne, Life With Father, 1946. Stickney co-starred with her husband, Howard Lindsay, in his and Broadway’s longest running play. They both tested for the Michael Curtiz movie but were deemed too old. There no close-ups on-stage…
- Ruth Gordon, Harold and Maude, 1971. OK, there were obviously quite a few possible Harolds, but surely Ruth was the only possible Maude – even if shecouldn’t drive a car.Not quite. Director Hal Ashby chatted up every funky old bird still breathing and insurable…Peggy Ashcroft, Elisabeth Bergner, Gladys Cooper, Edith Evans, Edwige Feuillère, Mildred Natwick.
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